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STATE v. EVANS

Nos. 28, 32, Sept. Term, 1997.

723 A.2d 423 (1999)

352 Md. 496

STATE of Maryland v. Dwight EVANS. State of Maryland v. Charles Sykes-Bey.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 26, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas K. Clancy, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Maryland, on brief), Baltimore, for Petitioner.

Margaret A. Mead (Roland Walker, Walker Van Bavel, Amaral & Mead, P.A., Norman Hochberg, all on brief), Baltimore, for Respondent in No. 28.

Kreg Paul Greer, Towson, for Respondent in No. 32.

Before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, RAKER and WILNER, and ROBERT L. KARWACKI (retired, specially assigned), JJ.

RAKER, Judge.

In these two cases Respondents were physically detained by the police on the basis of probable cause to believe that each had participated in an illegal drug transaction. In both instances, the police searched Respondents while they were detained and released them with the intention of later charging them with violation of the controlled dangerous substance laws of this State. We shall hold that both detentions were lawful arrests under Maryland law...

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